Investors can also buy and sell shares through a resale program, which functions like a secondary market.

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More and more utilities are tapping the capabilities of advanced metering technologies to enhance operations, forecasting, outage management, program evaluation and other functions.

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That will save us some money, but the core functions of the program are sustained.

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What makes compliance convergence not only possible but almost inevitable is that many different functions within an overall compliance program look for the same information.

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The program tiles clutter the desktop and basic system functions and information are hidden beneath layers of new links.

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Payne said that for women in corporate roles, knowing how to program can give you an edge, especially in functions that are becoming more technical every day, such as marketing.

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In the SDN approach, those control functions are split off to be managed by one central program, which may be run on an inexpensive server system.

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With senior-level representation from program and management offices throughout the Government, this group will serve several critical functions.

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By converging your compliance functions, you generate efficiencies that not only help your bottom line, but also create a holistic program from a patchwork one.

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